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The Daily Stoic
It is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man infatuated with a married woman, where clarity only comes after a physical altercation with the woman's husband. The story's metaphor of muddy water, obscuring the bottom, is compared to the Stoic and Buddhist practices of waiting for emotions to settle before making decisions.
In one of F Scott Fitzgerald's best short stories, The Four Fists, he talks about a man who is infatuated with a married woman. For the next week Samuel was in a nervous turmoil Fitzgerald writes, som...
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It is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man infatuated with a married woman, where clarity only comes after a physical altercation with the woman's husband. The story's metaphor of muddy water, obscuring the bottom, is compared to the Stoic and Buddhist practices of waiting for emotions to settle before making decisions.
In one of F Scott Fitzgerald's best short stories, The Four Fists, he talks about a man who is infatuated with a married woman. For the next week Samuel was in a nervous turmoil Fitzgerald writes, some persistently rational strain warned him that at the bottom he and Marjorie had little in common, but in such cases there is usually so much mud in the water that one can sell them see the bottom.